word

Letter

Words

A single alphabetic character. Not syllable, and not a mailed epistle alone — though English uses one word for both.

Hellenic religion

  • Letter appears in Hellenic religion.

    Herodotus recounts Phoenician letters brought among the Greeks and reshaped as Greek characters. A named letter (alphabetic character) speech in that inquiry, not alphabet as a whole script-system dump and not abjad.

    from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCE

    appears in · sourced · documented

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